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Alex was flipping the channel back and forth between the Cardinals game and a movie when he switched back to the game and Fernando Tatis was at the plate. They'd have to wait a few more innings before McGwire would bat again, Alex said, since Tatis always bats cleanup behind McGwire.

"Tatis always batted fourth and McGwire batted third. It was that way all summer," Scherzer says. "So when Tatis comes up, we're watching Under Siege 2. Then they interrupt the movie right in the middle of Steven Seagal's fight scene. They go, 'Ladies and gentlemen, Mark McGwire has done it. He has hit 62.'

"I was so mad at my brother, I hit him. He should have known that Tatis was hitting in the No. 2 hole and not the 4-hole. If he had just watched the first inning he would have known that.